Article originally published on the IGRAC website.
Together with NWP (Netherlands 
Water Partnership) IGRAC organised a ‘Roundtable on Netherlands Groundwater Expertise in Integrated Delta Management’. Mr. Junaid Ahmad, Senior Director Water at The World Bank, met representatives of Dutch groundwater sector to hear about groundwater management practice in the Netherlands and to explore possibilities to implement related knowledge into World Bank operations.
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), the WBG, and the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) are wor
king together to build regional government capacity in the field of infrastructure PPPs with the long-term goal being to create a Regional support mechanism that will promote high rates of growth and reduce poverty by enabling substantial PPP investments in infrastructure and service delivery.
Expression of Interest Deadline: 08-Sep-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
This morning the fifth edition of the NL4WorldBank 
newsletter was published. Those subscribed to the newsletter automatically received it in their inbox. If you did not receive the newsletter, you will find it here.
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IFC Seeks to hire up to five (5) Short Term Consultants (STCs) to help originate and execute Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects across the Asia pacific Region. These consultants will work as core team members in IFC Business Develop Initiatives and PPP Project Execution related activities.
I am honored to present you with the fifth 
edition of the NL for World Bank newsletter on my first day as the newly appointed ambassador to the United States. As Ambassador-designate, I am keenly aware that the Embassy’s resort includes not only the 50 American states, but also the largest development bank in the world: the World Bank Group.
At first glimpse, the contrast between the work of the embassy’s World Bank team and the staff focused on the United States could hardly be starker, perhaps only exceeded by the contrast of the World Bank being a mere two blocks away from the White House. Continue reading
The study Commercial Reforestation Potential in Colombia aims to support the Government of Colombias effort to define the most appropriate model for commercial reforestation in Colombia: these commercial planted forests should be developed in an economically-profitable, socially-inclusive and environmentally-friendly way.
Assess the existing policy and institutional framework and evaluate the efficiency and efficacy as well as the interaction of policies, institutions and regulations related to commercial forest plantations in Colombia. Identify the main gaps and difficulties in operation/implementation/efficiency and make concrete recommendations duly supported in order to promote the development of commercial reforestation in the country in the short, medium and long term.
Tender posted on Projects & Operations website of the World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/projects/procurement/noticeoverview?id=OP
00033970
The main objective of this Research Activities on Long Term Monitoring, Research and Analysis of Bangladesh Coastal Zone (Sustainable Polders adapted to Coastal Dynamics) is to improve and manage the polders successfully in the coming decades.
The indicative price of this contract is US$ 8 million including, interalia, the cost of research equipment and training.
Many of the World Bank financed Projects 
are using e-procurement systems, which are required to be assessed by the Bank using MDB guidelines. Additionally, some analytical work (like e-procurement spend analysis and impact assessment) is also conducted by the Bank team. Another emerging area is e-reverse auction.
World Bank now invites CVs of experienced professionals in above areas for preparing a panel of experts, who may be called upon when a specific need arises.
Article originally posted on the World Bank website on August 19, 2015.
Highlights:
The last decade was golden for 
Cambodian agriculture. The annual agricultural sector growth of 5.3% between 2004 and 2012 was one of the highest in the world, according to a new World Bank report, Cambodian Agriculture in Transition: Opportunities and Risks , prepared with the support of the Australian government.
Date: September 29, 2015
Over the past decade or so, we have witnessed an 
impressive growth in the number, volume, and types of social protection programs in developing countries. This successful growth has been accompanied by a shift in focus from the programs’ traditional role of mitigating risk to changing the earnings trajectory of poor households to promote their escape from poverty. Continue reading
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